Say, has any of you here ever TASed, or did a UAS of a Project made with Game Maker? I would've. Heck, I've been making projects with Game Maker since 2004.
www.gamemaker.nl
Game Maker is quite a good and pretty easy program to create games. You can use it free, but some of the functions are only unlocked. To get full acces of all functions you have to register for about 15$.
Well, is it actually possible to play it frame-by-frame, let alone savestate and record input? In fact, given that they're .exe files, if we could savestate THEM why not do TASes of other games? Dibs on Impossible Creatures Campaign when we get .exe TAS.
Well, is it actually possible to play it frame-by-frame, let alone savestate and record input?
Question.
Chamale wrote:
In fact, given that they're .exe files,
Statement.
Chamale wrote:
if we could savestate THEM why not do TASes of other games?
Statementish question.
Chamale wrote:
Dibs on Impossible Creatures Campaign when we get .exe TAS.
Questionable statement.
Long answer: The Game Maker games are in 2d (Which makes them a lot less complicated than most PC games) and since they are all made in the same program, it's maybe possible to reverse engineer some parts that all of the Game Maker games share so that you can make those games interface directly to the emulator/TASing program. The commercial PC games are not the same, really. The only things the commercial games share are with each other are the parts that interface with the operating system. In order to properly emulate one of those games, you'd have to simulate a computer, that runs an operating system, that runs a game which uses up a lot of processing power (The Game Maker games on the other hand are kinda lightweight.) Get it? In order to TAS your game that you have for your PC the PC has to simulate itself, like this:
PC runs OS that runs TAS program that runs virtual PC that runs OS that runs game.
Short answer: I mean, we're not near proper n64 TASing although it was released ten years ago, and you call dibs on a game that may not be even playable during the next 10 years?
Note that I may very well be wrong about some of these things. I'm no 1337 (0^^pu73r ^^a573r, nor am I a computer engineering student or anything like that. I was guessing some things in the text, too. Hey, no one's perfect, right?
BTW, is "interface" possible to use as a verb?
Also, the small text size gives me the capability to say dirty words that other forum-goers won't see unless they quote me! Tits!
BTW, is "interface" possible to use as a verb?
Also, the small text size gives me the capability to say dirty words that other forum-goers won't see unless they quote me! Tits!
Sorry, you were asking for that ;)
dictionary.com wrote:
in·ter·face v. to bring together; connect or mesh
... so verb away!
Also, tits ain't that bad:
dictionary.com wrote:
tit n.
1. a titmouse.
2. any of various other small birds.
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